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Fire canoes : steamboats on great Canadian rivers / Anthony Dalton.
- Title
- Fire canoes : steamboats on great Canadian rivers / Anthony Dalton.
- Author
- Dalton, Anthony
- Publication
- Victoria [B.C.] : Heritage House, c2012.
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- Description
- 141 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Amazing stories
- Uniform Title
- Amazing stories (Surrey, B.C.)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-137) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Anson Northup: An American Entrepreneur 20 -- Chapter 2 Peter McArthur's Fleet 27 -- Chapter 3 The Greyhound of the Saskatchewan 36 -- Chapter 4 Steamboats at War on the Prairies 43 -- Chapter 5 The Red River Flood of 1897 51 -- Chapter 6 One Man's Disasters: Tales of Captain Horatio Hamilton Ross 56 -- Chapter 7 Problems on the Saskatchewan Rivers 68 -- Chapter 8 Tramp Steamers on the Prairies 74 -- Chapter 9 Yukon Gold 79 -- Chapter 10 North toward the Arctic 90 -- Chapter 11 British Columbia's Big River Canyons 99 -- Chapter 12 Steamboats in Ontario 109 -- Chapter 13 The Saguenay River 116 -- Chapter 14 Steam on the Majestic St. Lawrence River 121.
- ISBN
- 9781927051450
- 1927051452
- OCLC
- 768534876
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library